A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of
whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of
whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of
whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle, and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in Central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in Southeast Redmond and Downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to Downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from Downtown Bellevue to Downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016 and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Luke, thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this, if she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here, and as all proclamations there are a whole bunch of
whereas's in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016, and ask those who would like to join the Council and myself
in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
But I can tell you that the entire board and many that he has come
in contact with him have been impressed with his
leadership
I want to express a very heartfelt thanks on behalf of all of Sound Transit
to this council and to the people of Issaquah for the lend of your mayor.
Butler has served on the sound transit board for a great number of years. He
is easily and without question our most diligent and thorough board member
who, as chairman of our capital committee, carefully reviews each and every one of our
projects. And he is a real treasurer on our board and I want to just
thank the people of Issaquah for his services. I'm going
to quickly go through sort of the basics of the ST3 plan. A few years
ago, the Puget Sound Regional Council announced a staggering statistic and that is that the
Puget Sound region is likely to grow by 800 ,000 new residents by
2040. And let's just talk a little bit about what 800 ,000 additional residents mean.
It is the basically adding on top of the density and congestion that we already
have in this region, adding again the entire population of Seattle and almost all of
the entire population of Tacoma on top of what we already have. And I can
tell you in my prior life, I served as both the Federal
Transit Administrator, where I also had the opportunity to work with Bill Ramos, but also
I served as the Under Secretary of Transportation. And this trend in the Puget Sound
region is very similar to what's happening in 10 other mega regions around the
country, where we're going to have 70 million additional folks coming,
basically new citizens by 2040 in the United States, but they're not going to be
widely dispersed. They're all going to be very heavily concentrated in one of 11 mega
regions and the Puget Sound region is one of them. And when you're faced with
that kind of growth, you really have two choices. You can plan and
build for it or you can be completely overwhelmed by it. The Sound Transit 3
plan as developed by the Sound Transit Board is really an effort for this region
to plan and build for it rather than be completely overwhelmed by it. is a
big plan and it's an ambitious plan. It's a $54 billion plan spread out over
25 years. And I'm going to give you some of the details if I can.
I am going to try and work this. Maybe
this is working, maybe it's not. Well, I'm going to dispense with the slides and
just verbalize it if I can. Or if Luke can get the screen to work,
that'd be great. Oh, try the arrows.
The importantly what the centerpiece of the plan is to build a 116
mile regional light rail network to basically expand upon
the successes that we've had with light rail to date and the overwhelming popularity that
we've seen with our expansion to the University of Washington.
And really build out a regional network where light rail passengers have a way to
connect to all corners of the region all the way to Tacoma, all the way
up to Everett, to Ballard, to West Seattle and on the east side from South
Kirkland all the way to Issaquah. Importantly, one of the things we heard
from the mayors on the east side as this plan was being developed was the
desire to not just view this as a system to get in and out of
Seattle, but rather as an opportunity to connect the cities of the east side.
And the plan includes efforts to do just that. It includes a light rail line
running nearly 12 miles from Issaquah to South Kirkland via Bellevue with stations in
Issaquah, Eastgate near Bellevue College, the Richards Road area, Bellevue and Kirkland.
The plan includes an elevated station in central Issaquah located south of I -90 along
with 500 parking stalls and a pedestrian bridge crossing over I -90. When service of
the new line begins in 2041, riders boarding in Issaquah would arrive in Bellevue in
23 minutes where they could transfer to Eastlink and to Seattle or Redmond or to
a new Interstate 405 bus rapid transit system. This is our first major foray as
an agency into bus rapid transit. ST3 would also extend
Eastlink light rail, which is scheduled to open in 2023, another 3 .7 miles from
the Redmond Technology Center to new stations in southeast Redmond and downtown Redmond. When
that segment of Eastlink opens in 2024, riders could travel from Bellevue to downtown Redmond
in 17 minutes and from downtown Bellevue to downtown Seattle in 24 minutes.
With ST3, residents in Issaquah would also have the access to a new bus rapid
transit or BRT in 405 that will run all the way from Lynnwood
to Kirkland, Bellevue, Renton, Tukwila and then on to Burien on bus only lanes on
State Route 518. BRT buses would begin running in 2024 and arrive every 10
minutes during peak commuting hours and 15 minutes in the off peak. Bus rapid transit
would also be added on Northeast 145th Street and State Route 522 to connect riders
from Woodinville, Bothell, Kenmore and Lake Forest Park with a future link light rail station
and shoreline on I -5. ST3 would include five light rail and 13 BRT stations
just on the east side and that's what we were talking about in terms of
connecting cities on the east side. There's also other connections throughout the
Puget Sound region. We built 62 more miles of light rail connecting major urban areas
from the east side to Seattle, north to Everett, south to Tacoma as I explained
earlier. And if voters approve the ST3 plan it will cost the typical adult in
the sound transit district about $169 per year or about $14 per month. What
this really is about is giving people the opportunity to get
control of their quality of life. It's been really notable that in just
the last two years the PSRC has now documented what a lot of us
as drivers in the region have already experienced. And that is congestion has worsened more
than 20 % in just two years. And this pattern here again follows a pattern
that you see in other cities all across the country and other regions across the
country. Population grows 15%, traffic worsens 15%. Population may grow
another 20%, maybe population worsens 25%. But at a certain point the
region reaches a saturation point. And another 10 or 20 % increase in population
causes congestion to worsen dramatically more so. And that is what we're now starting to
see in this region. And the ST3 plan is an effort to try and get
on top of it. So people would actually have a fighting chance to get home
and see the last few innings of their kids' little league game. Have a fighting
chance to actually have dinner with their family. And would not have to leave so
punishingly early in the morning just to guarantee that they'll get to work on time.
That is really what is fundamentally what the Sound Transit 3 plan is about. So
again let me thank the council. Let me thank the people of Issaquah for Fred's
leadership on the board. Let me also just parenthetically thank the council. I believe one
of the things you're taking up today is an effort of starting the process to
consider light rail as a permitted use in part of Issaquah. That is a best
practice that we are trying to encourage in cities all across the Sound Transit District.
To help facilitate the communities both city staff and Sound
Transit staff working together to be able to get projects in the ground sooner. So
with that I conclude my remarks and would happily take any questions you have. Are
there questions of Peter Rogoff?
Are, is there any discussion?
Council President Goodman. I'd like to make a motion if I may. I would move,
I would move to schedule a public hearing to be held at the regular council
meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare a resolution in support
of the ballot measure. Moved and seconded discussion.
All those in favor of scheduling a public hearing to be held at the regular
council meeting of September 19th 2016. and direct the administration to prepare
a resolution in support of the ballot measure. Signify by saying aye.
That carries unanimously. Peter, thank you very, very much. Thank you for
getting the slides up.
And I, I believe, I see someone
who is ready to receive this. If she would come forward.
How you doing this evening? Good, how are you? I'm doing great. So I have
a proclamation here. And as all proclamations, there are a whole bunch of
whereases in them. So I would ask that after the whereas you think a little
bit about what the proclamation is saying because there's a real
need behind this. So whereas our King County cities recognize adequate
nutrition as a basic goal for each citizen. Whereas no
parent should have to send a child.
A call to order the City Council regular meeting this Tuesday, September
the 6th, 2016. And I ask those who would like to join the Council and
myself in the Pledge of Allegiance to please stand.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God,
indivisible, with leadership and justice for all.
With that, we will now move to special business. We
have three items under special business this evening. The first is Agenda Bill
7222, Consideration to Support Sound
Transit 3 Plan, November the 8th, 2016,
Ballot Item. And with that, I would like to introduce
Sound Transit CEO, Peter Rogoff.